My Kowhaiwhai Design

This years topic is Te wa toi, and we have designed and painted our own kowhaiwhai. I've called my artwork 'Ko au' - 'me', My piece of artwork represents my family. The two red korus represents my mum and dad, The blue korus at the bottom represents my oldest brother, me and my younger sister. The black ngutu-kaka also represents one of my cultures (maori). the patiki I coloured green is a bridge to keep us protected. and last one is the yellow upside down triangle, that represents my older sister watching over us. 

Perspectives and Opinion video

Here is Perspectives and Opinion video. On my other post (Perspectives and Opinions) it will tell you why we made this short film.

Sprint track

WALT: Agree on a solution that each member can explain.

Today we are leaning about are and perimeter. Here is our working out on slide 1.

Lady Pink

Today we will be talking about a graffiti artist, lady pink and how she uses Texture,Colour and shape in her artwork to show that women can do anything. As you can see Lady Pink uses a lot of colours to express how she feels about empowering women.  She also uses Texture to bring the colours together by using the spray paint in different artwork. Our last element shows she uses different shapes to express different kinds of faces in her artwork. Her message towards all her artwork, to men especially is that women can do anything, weather its graffitti or different kind of arts.

Fact or Opinion

WALT: I will read across texts and media to form my own opinion on the current teacher strikes.


For this weeks topic we have been focusing on the strike day, which was held on Monday. For this activity we had to give facts and our own opinions on the strike day.

Maths

WALT: agree on a solution that each member can

This week we have been focusing on perimeters and area of the field. but first we had to get into a group of 4 or 3, in my group I had Bryana and Tata. our strategy was to double both 26 and 14 to get our final answer, and we did that because it is done Side plus Side plus Side.

Beneath the green wood tree

Leaves falling off the tree

Feeling unhappy

As the wind blows by  

I look up into the sky

And I think to myself

Who am I.......

Measurement: Time

WALT: agree on a solution that each we can explain.

Man and Sea

WALT: Test ready, preparing myself with strategies to do my best in the upcoming tests.

In this activity, it tells us how a  boy named Ioane gets a tatau tattoo. In this process hes in so much pain, during this his papa tells him a story about a black octopus that ravaged island.

Lady Pink

For todays activity our focus was based on a graffiti artist, Lady Pink. First we watched a video about her then had to find out facts about her career/life.She's been a graffiti artist almost her whole life, in her teenage years she had trouble studying to be a architecture but struggled because there were to many numbers that had to be added. 

24-hour Times

WALT: use questions to help my understanding of other's mathematical thinking.


first day back at school, we're learning about our 24-hour time. during this activity I had a group of 3 girls, Ana.l Anna.V and myself.  there are three slides and each of us got one slide each to work, I had the first one, Anna.V had the second and Ana.l Had the third one. for e.g if it says 10 minutes to  (before) 12 , that's 11:50.

Kiwi KIds News #2

Fart proof underwear

Recall:

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?

U.K company

2. What was the key event from the news article?

Fart proof undies

3. Where did this event take place?

United kingdom

4. When did this event take place?

September 19 2018

Thinking:

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

“Millions of people”

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

This company is trying to reduce bad smells coming from your behind

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

This event took place in the U.K , in the U.K is where the queen and her family live

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

September 19 2018, this might be a number 1 selling product for people that really need it

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

I personally think that a lot of people would wear this product because some people fart a lot and it really smells but they also wanna put it to the test

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

Combat - fighting between armed forces.

Spokesperson - a spokesman or spokeswoman (used as a neutral alternative).

Warfare -  engagement in or the activities involved in war or conflict.

Poetry Box - Paula Green

WALT: Writing Poetry For the audience of my whanau.


This week we got the task to write down what we knew about Paula green , and we also had to write a poetry about a parents childhood.

Deli Ali - Kiwi Kids News

Recall:

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?

    Dele Ali

2. What was the key event from the news article?

   Can you do Dele Ali ?

3. Where did this event take place?

 It can take place anywhere in the world

4. When did this event take place?

This event took place on the 3rd of September 2018

Thinking:

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

 There is no quote shown in this article.

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

All over the world people have discovered the weird hand gesture that Dele Ali did after
every goal he got, and started trying to do it. Now it is popular to people and became the
new trend.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

 It doesn’t have any information about where the event took place.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

This Dele Ali trend is popular right now but in the future I don’t think it will be as popular
as it is right now.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

It started from the Football Player, Dele Ali. After he scored goals he did this hand gesture,
and suddenly it became more popular.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from
the article.

Craze -  An Enthusiasm for a particular activity or object which achieves widespread but short-lived
popularity

Gesture -  a movement of part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning.

Viral - circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another.

Missing Someone

There was a time in life when I used to have a older sister, Her name
was lyric Kendall-Stephens. I wasn’t quite born yet to see how my
sister looked when she was just a beautiful baby. As time went past
I got older and older, when I had turn 12 I found photos of my sister
when she was a baby.

I was so happy that I got to see what she had looked like, She was so
beautiful. Some days I just wish she was here right now sitting by my
side. I really loved seeing her photos. She was the second oldest in our
family out of us 4 kids, It went My brother Kayden, My sister Lyric, Me
Myztique, and my little sister Leigharna.

It would have been great if she was with us here today, but she’s in a
better place in “heaven” with GOD.

Laziness

Another day in the life of laziness, I myself had to wake up early in the morning to get ready for school.

As you can see on the top of this paragraph is photos of the morning sunrise and tired animals, and
they pretty much shows was I looked like when I woke up this morning. The first photo is revealing you
how comfy I was lying down nice and warm in bed, the second photo shows the sun rising behind the
big old trees. The third photo manifests how hard it was for me to open my eyes and how lazy I was to
get up, and lastly the last photo presents me getting up out of my warm comfy bed to get ready for
school.

Ned's Adventure !

This morning we had special visitors that came to our school to talk to the whole school about something
special. Can you guess who it is ? if you guessed Ned your right, Ned also came with a friend named
Cosmo. They’ve only been in Aotearoa once and only for a week. They are here to talk about how there
adventure went/was in the country Kenya based in Africa.

They’re first topic they talked about was about our superhero powers, and that power was our smile.
when you smile it brings the whole world together, He had multiple reasons why and how our smile can
change the world. One of his quotes that stood out to me was “smiles can break down walls”.
The reason to it is that if you smile it can bring people a happier life.

Then he talked about the matters of people, and how you care for one another. Caring for other people

can change lives, though you may not know them you still care it helps bring love and happiness into our
world and community. The five things he listed that were apart of this topic were , Each person matters a
lot, Caring is cool, different can be good, I can make friends everywhere and Include others.

In every country we all know there are different languages that are said. And in Kenya they have a way of
speaking their own language where us New Zealanders just speak English which most of us understand
,we do also speak other languages but English is what we prefer most, In New Zealand .Whatever culture
you are or whatever language you speak at home, feel free to express it around the world, It’s a way
that people can also communicate to you, and to try new languages.  I like to learn new
things, and I wouldn’t be more happier if I could learn a new language from a country
I’ve never really heard of.

He then talked about the education, and compares the times we wake up and the times the Kenya kids
wake up.  Here in Aotearoa the times our kids wake up is at 7:00 am and over in Kenya the kids over
there wake up at 5:00 am every single day for school. My questions towards that is, is it because they
have to walk a far distance? Or because they start very early?. I only live a few blocks down from school
and I always have to wake up at 6:00 every morning to get ready.

These messages can help everyone. It was good to know the difference between the students here in

Aotearoa and the students in Kenya. It was also good to know the five importance of how to be kind to
other people. and they were, difference can be good, caring is cool, I can make friends anywhere, each
person matters a lot and include others. My favourite one out of all of the five is, Difference can be good,
The reason why is because being different is a good way to learn different things, like for e.g if your
Islander and you wanna learn how to speak another language like what Kenya speak, you can always
give it a go. No matter how much you fail you still get up and try your best until you get it.

Multiplying whole numbers by decimals

This week we've been learning how to multiply  decimals. One thing I have learnt from this presentation is that I find it way easier to multiply decimals now and that this activity has helped me increase my knowledge of decimals.

Intro: statistics

For this weeks activity we got introduced to statistics but a few of us already knew what statistics was all about. I was working with a buddy who is Anna and we figured out a lot of complicated equations of different kinds of graphs. 

Fun Holiday

Have you been doing the same thing over and over again in the holidays, and getting sick and tired of it ? well here are four ideas I have for you to make your holiday fun. I’m sure you are very tired of doing the same thing over and over again, and i’m sure that thing you do it ‘Nothing’. But if you wanna have some fun I suggest you keep reading and at least admire one of these idea i have for you and give it a go.

Idea 1: Making your chores fun and funner than they already are.

E.g Instead of you cleaning the dishes and cleaning the floors you should clean yourself and your siblings, and no I don’t mean go have a shower and actually clean yourself ,, I mean like go have a water fight and use the soap well your at it, and say to your parents “were done with our shower”. But make sure you also wet your parents so they can join in with the fun.

Now that we're done with the chores and there over with, here’s second idea: is to play fortnite everyday with your friends, but make sure you do in and outs so that the game is fair at the same times its being fun. Then on fortnite make sure you also do those ‘COOL’ as dance moves so you can join in with it.

Also you can play some physical games outside with your neighbours and play softball or something, and if you ever play softball to make it fun you should make the person that hits the ball slide to the bases like slip in slide, and have the bases as big floaties and put funky stuff in it for them to sit in. I promise you it will be ‘Very Fun’. but make sure you don’t make any mud piles or your gonna get a slap to your head.

Here’s my last and final idea. Whenever your parents are home and your alone your always hungry right ? if your one of those familiar people I suggest you make a lot of pancakes until your plate is full and heavy,Also put bananas and syrup all over you pancakes , trust me it will be delicious. But when you finish eating you got to make sure you do the dishes so you don’t get in trouble.

There we go, there are some good ideas to try in your next school holidays. Remember to get the important things done first - like your chores before entering the fun zone, you could cook a big breakfast in the morning so you could skip lunch to continue playing fortnite or any other activities ( before MUM & DAD come home). Use your time wisely to get a better chance at getting things done your way. Happy holiday !!